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FIT FOR A KING

In issue 495 you invited readers to write about their first instruments. Strictly speaking, mine was a home-build, made by a fellow boarder at the Sussex grammar school to which we both went in 1953. The Woodwork Club, housed in a windowless bomb shelter, was mainly the preserve of aeromodellers, many attracted by ready supplies of the nitrocellulose dope used to stretch the tissue over the balsa frames of model planes. My pal had no interest in his guitar once it was complete,